Whenever I run the following code:
#counts length of a string
.data
.data
string: .asciiz "Hello"
printedMessage: .asciiz "The length of the string: "
.text
main:
la $a0, string # Load address of string.
jal strlen # Call strlen procedure.
jal print
addi $a1, $a0, 0 # Move address of string to $a1
addi $v1, $v0, 0 # Move length of string to $v1
addi $v0, $0, 11 # System call code for message.
la $a0, printedMessage # Address of message.
syscall
addi $v0, $0, 10 # System call code for exit.
syscall
strlen:
li $t0, 0 # initialize the count to zero
loop:
lb $t1, 0($a0) # load the next character into t1
beqz $t1, exit # check for the null character
addi $a0, $a0, 1 # increment the string pointer
addi $t0, $t0, 1 # increment the count
j loop # return to the top of the loop
exit:
jr $ra
print:
li $v0, 4
la $a0, printedMessage
syscall
li $v0, 1
move $a0, $t1
syscall
jr $ra
The QtSpim console prints "The length of the string: 0-". I've played around a bit with my print method, but I'm not sure what the problem is. So, the question: How do I fix my print outs? I should be printing out the info in $t0 since it's the counter.
Thanks in advance!
Not entirely sure what you mean by fix print out, but one problem is that your count register in the strlen function is $t0
while your second syscall in print:
is called with argument $t1
Changing that $t1
to $t0
and running it gives output 5.